> > It has always bugged me that Gnome and KDE implement their own VFS layers. > > Same here. This always seemed like something the kernel should be able> to handle. It seems to me that if reiser4 had been available at the> time the Gnome and KDE developers would not have needed to do this.

Well, the kernel doesn't have a filesystem that speaks http, scp andthose things. GnomeVFS is URL-based. It has some pseudo-protocols thatextract a pseudo directory-tree for all installed applications + thechanges the used made, created on the fly from a set of XML files thatare read-only and system-wide and the user-overridden changes. I don'tknow if all of these things would really make sense inside the kernel.